About Locate Precedent

Locate Precedent analyzes your contract, builds a clause outline, and helps you find relevant sample agreements and clauses for specific sections.
The Locate Precedent feature in Drafting Assistant lets you retrieve sample agreements and clauses from those agreements related to specific contract clauses in your document. Locate Precedent analyzes your contract and creates an outline so you can locate sample agreements related to clauses in your contract.
To create an outline of your document and locate precedent related to specific clauses, complete the following:
  1. Select
    Locate Precedent
    .
  2. Select
    Generate Document Outline
    .
  3. Select a clause from the document outline on the left, and select
    Find Precedent
    to search for precedent related to that section of content. Select the
    expand/collapse
    buttons (/) to expand/collapse the outline. The section you select is highlighted in the document text on the right.
  4. You have the following options:
    • Select
      Relevance
      or
      Date
      from the list at the top of the results to sort the list of results.
    • Select
      Filter
      at the top of the results list, select the filters, and select
      Apply Filters
      . Select
      Clear All
      to remove all filters.
    • Select
      Back
      to return to the document outline.
  5. Select a
    Sample Agreement
    in the results list to open the document in the Locate Precedent pane. You have the following options:
    • Return to List
      (): Return to the full results list.
    • Open
      : Open the document in another instance of Microsoft Word.
    • Search
      (): Enter a search term in the field provided and press
      Enter
      to search within the sample agreement. At least 2 characters must be entered to begin a search. Use the arrows by the search term to go from search result to search result in the document. Select the
      X
      by the search term to remove the search.
    • Table of Contents
      (): Return to the outline of the document.
    • Related Documents
      (): See documents related to the selected sample agreement.
  6. Use the document and Clauses navigation to go to the next sample agreement or next clause. ()

error-icon

Triva isn't available right now.

Check out the support page for our phone number and hours

error-close